Plume Of Feathers, John E Vistic

Plume Of Feathers is a band, a former pub and an album. The launch night for the album is Fri 5th Feb upstairs at The Stag and Hounds, Bristol. Expect a mix of music, art and scampi fries. FREE ENTRY. (it's a small room mind).

Support from John E Vistic (solo)

Vistic brings you a rare acoustic set of his Waits-esque blues folk poetry. Delighted to have a local legend playing.

Stuff about Plume Of Feathers

The UK has lost 21,000 pubs since 1980, with half of these closures taking place since 2006. (IEA 2014)

Plume of Feathers is an album based on the decline of pubs in the UK. Its also about people -real and made-up- who drink in pubs and uses a pub in Hotwells, Bristol that opened in 1775 and closed in 2013 as a thread throughout.

The tracks include an interview with a landlord and reference first dates, wakes, a leaving do, football fans, pub singers, mourning pensioners, gin palaces, gentrification and drug-taking regulars and are as varied as yer average pub's punters.

Recorded in Glasgow in 2015, the first release from the album First Date has been played on a few shows on 6Music and was on the BBC Scotland playlist for a bit too. (eeoo)

The band is made up of local musicians L Tourist, Chris Webb, Jim Evans and Brian Price (Flatmates/Peru).